The horizontal spiral and where it goes...

Tonight we did the same horizontal spiral movement again.  This time, Master Li asked us to - slowly and gradually - make the spirals smaller and smaller.  As we did that, we also started shrinking, bring the hands in, and putting the hands on the lower stomach.  As we were doing this he asked us to imagine the energy flowing in that spiral going into hands, or in other words making the hands part of the circle.

Then, again, slowly, make the circles smaller and smaller, to the point that there is almost no spiral movement.  Here's the final step:  You get to a point that the spiral movement is only in your mind.  Now your mind is circulating the energy.  This is huge - I can see that if one keeps practicing, he or she can get to the point of being able to think of circulating energy and make it happen.  Awesome.

This was an eye opening exercise.